Mike,
An accurate way to find the exact printer name you want is:
R>Prnsetup
This will display a pop up window in which you can manually select the exact
printer you want.
Then enter ..
R>Set var x = (Cval('currentprinter'))
R>Sho var X
HP LaserJet 4100 Series PCL
This will display the exact name required to send to the printer you desire.
Note that you can also leave the "option printer" out and simply print to
the screen
as a preview. Then on the preview screen, you can click the printer icon
and it
will display all your available windows printers. I normally print to the
screen first for the
user to review and then they can choose to send to the printer or not.
Give it a try!
-Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 5:49 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Printing a Report to a file in RB 7.6 makes a1 byte
file
Historically (and I am getting old) I though it was considered bad form to
print directly to a printer, but I guess that is old news!
Ok, so I tried it and it worked....sort of. It went to the wrong
network printer! My Server is sinclair3. It went to the printer called
"MAIN"
on sinclair3. It should be going to the printer called 'scripts'. The code
that sent it to the wrong printer is...
PRINT ptscripxp WHERE patnumbr = .vpnum AND prntflag = 'Y' OPTION PRINTER
+
|PRINTER_NAME \\sinclair3\scripts
"MAIN" is the default printer for the pc I am working on, so apparently,
the code is just sending it to the default printer.
How do I fix that?
And by the way...thanks for your help! I really appreciate it!
Rbase users ROCK!
Mike
Bob Thompson wrote:
My first question is why do you want to issue a DOS print command in 7.6?
You have so many options in the print function with 7.6!
To eliminate the need to use the file and print directly to the printer..
PRINT ptscripxp WHERE patnumbr = .vpnum AND prntflag = 'Y' +
OPTION PRINTER |COPIES 1|PRINTER_NAME \\MyServer\hp LaserJet 1320 PCL 6
will send your report directly to the printer without needing any dos
file commands.
(after printer name use the exact name of the printer as shown in your
windows printers screen)
You can set all kinds of options! See PRINT help. No need to go to the
old method.
-Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sinclair"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 4:48 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printing a Report to a file in RB 7.6 makes a 1 byte
file
Hello again,
In Rbase for Windows ver 6.5, I could print a report to a file name, and
the copy the file to a printer.
The code that worked in Version 6.5 is....
erase c:\temp\script.txt
OUTPUT c:\temp\script.txt
PRINT ptscripxp WHERE patnumbr = .vpnum AND prntflag = 'Y'
OUTPUT SCREEN
zip CMD /C net use lpt3 /delete
pause for 1
zip CMD /C net use lpt3 \\sinclair3\scripts
pause for 1
copy c:\temp\script.txt lpt3
pause for 1
(the extra pause for 1 seemed to be required to make it work)
In Version 7.6, the file c:\temp\script.txt gets made, but it is only 1
byte in size.
When I run the code in Version 7.6, the report actually shows up on the
screen.
Is there a way to do this in Ver 7.6?
Thanks for your help!
Mike
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